Illusions

When Severus forces Draco to sacrifice his free time by tutoring Neville Longbottom in the art of Potions making, it is meant as a punishment. Or that's at least how it appears at first. A small, stinky snake, a sneaky Godfather with an even sneakier lover, a lecherous father with his past affairs, Death Eater involvement, and of course the tutoring lessons force both boys to abandon their old masks of (respectively) coldness and incompetence and face each other as they are. Perhaps tutoring isn't such a bad idea after all... SLASH SS/RL DM/NL LM/SB, past SLASH LM/SS LM/RL.

While tutoring the nightmare of all Potions instructors, Draco attempts to actually make a conversation with Neville. However, it doesn't take long from him to put a foot in his mouth.

Neville thinks about his feelings for Draco, and Draco opens up a bit.

Remus and Severus like scheming together, as well as certain other activities that involve the two of them. Meanwhile, Draco is suffering of a horrible nightmare.